Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker
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Nancy Josephine Kassebaum Baker was an American politician from Kansas who served as a member of the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997. She was the daughter of Alf Landon, who was Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican nominee for president, and the widow of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader and diplomat Howard Baker.
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Aug 22, 2026
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The former Kansas senator and first woman elected to the Senate from the state died at age 94.
Her death reminds centrists of an era of bipartisan cooperation and independent-minded Republicanism that many feel is lost today.